BCPL in the new millenium (was: Proposal3: Make $_ a valid ..

Mats Nygren nygren at sics.se
Sat Jun 3 19:41:17 UTC 2000


danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> "Mark van Gulik" <ghoul6 at home.net> wrote:
> >  Squeak, on the other hand, is missing so much (and *allows* so much
> > stuff that can never be translated) that your proposal can never be anything
> > beyond a simple pretty-printer.
> I suspect you may be confusing Mats' ambitions with your own. If I
> understood Mats' proposal correctly, he aims explicitly for an S that
> unifies *syntaxes* having the same semantics. If all the target
> languages make the same (no) assumptions about type, there's no great
> gap to cross in the translation.
> 
> This would help people to have multiple and diverse pretty printers and
> surface syntaxes, and fewer syntax arguments, leaving more time to code
> and have disscussions about interesting things, like semantics. So the
> S/pretty printer is useful, and if it's simple, that's so much for the
> better...
> 
> Daniel

Thank you Daniel, I need write no more, you are reading my mind.

/Mats





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